The Empresses

The Empresses (2023)

HistoryDrama

Little Elizabeth thought her future was predestined: she was to marry Louis XV and become the Queen of France – that was the promise given to her by her father, Emperor of Russia Peter the Great. When Peter dies in 1725 without naming a successor, an era of palace coups and power struggles begins in Russia. For some tumultuous years it remains to be seen whether the young Russian Empire and its new capital St. Petersburg would stand, and what future lies in store for the country of Russia. Peter's widow, Catherine I, becomes Empress - the first woman to rule Imperial Russia. She wishes to fulfil the promise her late husband had given to their daughter, but fails. Young Louis XV refuses to marry Elizabeth after learning that she was born before her parents were officially married. That, in his eyes, made her illegitimate.

Director: Andrey Kravchuk

Casts

	Yulia Peresild as
	Ivan Kolesnikov as
	Igor Gordin as
	Ksenia Utekhina as
	Anastasia Talyzina as
	Maria Peresild as
	Anna Ukolova as
	Alexandra Veleskevich as
	Kolya Neukoelln as
	Pavel Vorozhtsov as
	Olga Lerman as
	Eduard Orlov as
	Yaroslav Petrashko as
	Vyacheslav Kharchev as
	Nina Kucheruk as
	Vadim Rudenko as
	Daniil Bytrozorov as
	Alan Gubaev as
	Evgeny Mikhaylenko as
	Vadim Pirozhenko as
	Elena Krestyantseva as
	Vladimir Kanukhin as
	Roman Kaun as
	Roman Vasilev as
	Yuriy Itskov as
	Evgeniy Okorokov as

Crew